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Highlights of the 10.0 Release
Version 10.0 of the 3ware RAID Software and Firmware provides the following features and benefits to the 3ware 9750 model RAID controllers.

| Support for 6 Gbps SATA+SAS RAID On-a-Chip devices available on the 3ware 9750 RAID controllers, with continued support for the 3ware RAID software feature-set.

| Read cache settings let you enable either Basic Read Caching or Intelligent Read Caching to improve performance.

| Background task mode provides low latency settings to improve performance in video and audio applications.

| Enclosure alarm support allows you to turn off or mute audible alarms in supported enclosures that provide alarms.

| Advanced Content Streaming, a performance feature, provides increased speeds for streamed data, such as video playback and editing, through improved algorithms.

| Rapid RAID Recovery increases the speed with which a degraded unit can be rebuilt. It can also increase the speed of verification or initialization that may occur in the event of an unclean shutdown.

| Improved and simplified auto-verification and scheduling to help insure your RAID units are verified on a regular basis.

| Drive performance monitoring provides statistics to help trouble-shoot performance issues.

| Simultaneous RAID 6 parity generation to maximize RAID 6 performance

| StreamFusion™ optimizes RAID 5 and RAID 6 disk accesses to maximize application performance under heavy loads

| StorSave™ BBU with write journaling optimizes data protection and performance

| RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, and Single Disk

| With the 9750 models:

| PCI Express® x8 Gen 2.0

| Ability to have SAS and/or SATA drives on the same controller (see Drive Requirements)

| Connectivity with up to 96 single-ported drives or 48 dual-ported drives

| Up to 32 drives in a unit

| Up to 32 active units

Related Topics
  System Requirements
  Understanding RAID Concepts and Levels
  3ware Tools for Configuration and Management
  Monitoring, Maintenance, and Troubleshooting Features

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